Example sentences of "[adv] have been [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some gorges may once have been underground caverns , the roofs of which have collapsed . |
| 2 | The sample was made up of people whom they judged would probably have been long-stay residents of Powick if that option had continued to be available . |
| 3 | There may also have been certain conditions of the advance ( eg that a woodworm infestation shall be treated before completion , that certain repairs shall have been carried out or a deduction made from the mortgage loan until they have been ) . |
| 4 | There may also have been other reasons why he decided to move . |
| 5 | Dr Robert Eisenman , whom we cited earlier , believes there may well have been close links between Simeon 's family and the descendants of Jesus 's — if , indeed , they were not one and the same . |
| 6 | However , there may well have been other pressures on working class men as individuals , causing them to oppose the work of their wives . |
| 7 | The crucial importance of the functions of convening and chairing meetings seems to have been overlooked by those who set it up , or else these duties were delegated to people who did their best in adverse circumstances but who may well have been inappropriate choices . |
| 8 | It may well have been local brigands , but we 've found no clues . ’ |
| 9 | Imbeciles may well have been adult persons , if their disability were due to accident or disease . |
| 10 | Though had Simon produced such a ringing anti-apartheid statement as this there would surely have been little grounds for complaint about his Graceland trip . |
| 11 | In the early stages we started off with perhaps Minor schools which could almost have been Major ones , because you were just trying to find any school that had got some kind of life , or interest , or things happening … really in many ways it was rather a matter of chance because of the way it happened at the time . |